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Hermeneutics before Ontology: How Later Levinas Better Understands Heidegger

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Abstract This paper examines Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical development from Totality and Infinity to Otherwise than Being as a self-critique and revised understanding of Martin Heidegger. It focuses on later Levinas’s analysis of language in terms of the difference between Saying and Said. For Levinas, the Said represents the betrayal of ethical Saying into ontological essence. This echoes Heidegger’s notion of the forgetfulness of Being in beings. However, Levinas critiques Heidegger’s own philosophy as remaining within the Said. The paper explores three strategies of “unsaying” that Levinas discerns in Western philosophy to disrupt ontological Said: ontology itself, skepticism, and philosophical conversation. It argues that Levinas ultimately seeks an alternative “prophetic” mode of language beyond philosophy that enacts difference, which the paper relates to Talmud. The paper claims that the later Levinas no longer simply opposes Greek to Jewish thought, but rather seeks to deploy a specifically Jewish form of language to interrupt Western metaphysics from within.

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hal-04534859 , version 1 (05-04-2024)

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Elad Lapidot. Hermeneutics before Ontology: How Later Levinas Better Understands Heidegger. Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2024, 32 (1), pp.133-155. ⟨10.1163/1477285x-12341357⟩. ⟨hal-04534859⟩

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